The university actively devoted itself to national higher medical education, and was one of the two earliest nationally-authorized medical institutions to pilot eight-year-long medical education; it was also one of the first 15 institutions to pilot seven-year-long medical education. Currently, the university has two campuses and six university hospitals. It now consists of 18 schools and 2 branches and has 21 disciplines authorized to confer Bachelor's degrees. There are 9,687 full-time students studying at the university, 5,162 of whom are undergraduates, 3,089 are Master's students, 465 are PhD students and 984 are international students. The university (including the university hospitals) currently has 8,189 professional and technical faculty members. Among these, 633 are professors, 1,072 are associate professors, and 669 are full-time teachers located on the campus.

Currently the university has 7 first-level and 42 second-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees; 11 first-level and 74 second-level disciplines authorized to confer Master's degrees. It has 6 post-doctoral research stations and 1034 Master's supervisors and 324 doctoral supervisors.